The following tutorial is written specifically for users of one of the many Windows operating systems, as Mac users have to know this stuff already before they’re allowed to buy a Mac and Linux guys just operate via the command prompt. :smile: This tutorial will instruct you on how to resize and resample an image using the program
Irfanview, which is a freeware application that does quite a good job. There are hundreds of other products out there that will do just as good a job, but few of them are free and even fewer have such a small learning curve. Download Irfanview from
here.
The first thing you’re going to want to do after installing Irfanview is to start Irfanview itself. Once it starts, click on the File menu, and then Open (or for those visually-inclined you can click on the little yellow open folder button on the upper-left). Browse to the folder on your hard drive that has your image, select it, and then click the Open button.
Before you should be your image, in all of its oversized glory. If you’d like to see the image all in one window, click on the View menu and then "Fit only Big Images to Window".
Now you are ready to resize the image. Click on the Image menu and then Resize/Resample, about a third of the way down. Once that window opens (
looks like this) select the option “Set New Size” and put in your new measurement, and make sure that the units are set to Pixels. I normally don’t let me images be any larger than 300 pixels in any direction, so keep that in mind as you resize. If you change one value, the other value will change as well to keep the aspect ratio proper. Also, make sure that the DPI is no greater than 72, as this is the minimum resolution necessary to be viewed on a monitor. Once you have the numbers entered click the Okay button at the bottom of the window. If you don’t like the size you chose, you can go to the Edit menu and choose “Undo”, and then start over.
Now that the image is resized, you need to save it. You can either overwrite the current image by going to the File menu and choosing “Save”, or save the resized image with a new name by going to the File menu and choosing “Save As”. The latter is normally preferred for those who want to keep the original the same size but still have the resized image for posting on the Internet. Be sure that when you save the new item that you choose the appropriate file type from the drop-down list at the bottom of the window, which for online photos will be JPEG (jpg) compressed.
There ya go. If anything above isn't clear, let me know and I'll edit the text. Hopefully this will answer the questions that are out there.
[ 01-27-2003, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: The Fishing Geek ]
Finally! How to resize/resample images
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